Smell of dog - should I say something?

Agree with you Tenko. But if I ever smelt of urine, I would be very grateful if someone took be to the side and told me. That is a whole different story.

Dogs are the worst they pee up the curtains, bitches are better, yes, some houses smell of dog. I would never say anything I had dogs on the past and am well used to the smell of wet dog, others may well be more sensitive

Katie59

Dogs are the worst they pee up the curtains, bitches are better, yes, some houses smell of dog. I would never say anything I had dogs on the past and am well used to the smell of wet dog, others may well be more sensitive

We have had male Labs all our lives and I can assure you that not one of them ever peed up the curtains. Our dogs were all house-trained at a very early age and never peed in the house after that. My OH runs his own cleaning business and is very particularly about keeping the house clean, but if it does happen to smell of dog, so be it. He's just as much a member of the family as any other, and it's really only immediate family members who ever visit us in any case, and they all love animals too.

Imarocker

Dont mention it. Dog owners don’t notice the smell and don’t care. I can’t bear to use the loo at my sister’s house as she keeps the dog food there and DSs lounge is covered in dog hair.

You could offer to hoover the sitting room carpet. I’m sure your DS would be delighted and you might even be invited to visit more often.

Whilst it's easy to state 'only dog loving visitors should come' I hope none of you ever need the services of carers. I used to visit a house that reeked of a dog ( who probably peed in the lounge!) and sadly most of the carers refused to go back after one visit. Who could blame them ? I felt sorry for this 91 year old lady with no family but sometimes the " visitors" to our houses may be people we need?

I have worked as and managed caring services, I would be mortified in either myself or the people in my team behaved in such a way.

GrannySomerset

Like you I have a strongly developed sense of smell and can’t abide the smell of dog which the owners just don’t notice. If you want to be able to stay with your son say nothing and put scent on your hanky so you have something nice to sniff.

I was going to say exactly the same spray a little perfume on your chest and drop your head. I always did this with friends.
My mum took her own cushion to a relations on which she had sprayed perfume saying she had a bad back. She had the same acute smell I have.

Juliet27

^“love me, love my dog” 🐕^
'I live here, you are only visiting'
My thoughts too

A student dd once brought a male student friend - who didn’t like dogs - to stay.
I only heard later what she’d told him in advance: ‘You’ll have to pretend to like our dog, or my Mum’ll hate you.’ 😂

Gingerrice

Whilst it's easy to state 'only dog loving visitors should come' I hope none of you ever need the services of carers. I used to visit a house that reeked of a dog ( who probably peed in the lounge!) and sadly most of the carers refused to go back after one visit. Who could blame them ? I felt sorry for this 91 year old lady with no family but sometimes the " visitors" to our houses may be people we need?

That's extremely unprofessional of them. I know several carers and none would ever dream of acting in such a way. The same could apply to carers who are very anti-smoking - they can't just refuse to go into a house of someone who smokes.

We used to have a darling golden retriever. The dearest dog but boy, did he pong! As soon as I got home , if he’d been shut in, I opened all windows. We could never get rid of the lingering smell .
We now have a cockerpoo and she doesn’t smell at all. I do ask visitors if the house smells and they alway say ‘not at all’.

Just try to put up with it while you’re there.

they can refuse and frequently do.
the vast majority of care-workers around here are of african or asian origin.
a few are central or eastern european.
most of them cannot understand keeping dogs inside the house.
it is something to consider if one is dependant on care.

welbeck

they can refuse and frequently do.
the vast majority of care-workers around here are of african or asian origin.
a few are central or eastern european.
most of them cannot understand keeping dogs inside the house.
it is something to consider if one is dependant on care.

I've never heard of that around here. I know someone who was told she'd be sacked if she refused to go to the house of someone who smoked.

Wow! Just WOW! Blondiescot where on earth are these ultra sensitive souls emanating from.
I don’t believe anyone would become a carer if they are repelled by cigarette smoke or dog odour.
In a way I think the fact that there is no smoking anywhere now has highlighted all the objectionable smells that were there all along, such as armpits, dogs fur (cats always smelled) cheap perfumes, food smells.
I would hazard a guess that the younger the person the more they are likely to have been brought up with wall to wall air fresheners and fabric softeners and to think that this is how it should be. It is a neurosis and quite worrying .
Perhaps someone soon will invent an anti- pong face mask🙃

it's not a case of being sacked; they are contract workers on minimum wage, doing long hours of tramping about in all weathers, waiting for buses, not getting paid for travelling between calls.
there is an extreme shortage of care-workers, which as we know has a knock-on effect on delayed discharge from hosp.

Well yes carers should be properly paid, we should not be excusing poor quality care.

Just sniffing my Border Terrier to see if I can detect any hint of mushroom on him Foxie48

We had a border terrier cross and he never smelled at all.
We had a yorkie/jack russell cross and she never smelled apart from once when she had an awful ear infection.
We had a rescue yorkie and he didn’t smell but he had bad teeth when he arrived and they did smell until we got some removed and sorted.
We had a Dalmatian cross and he only used to smell when he had been in the sea, which he often did.

Galaxy

Well yes carers should be properly paid, we should not be excusing poor quality care.

agree, of course.
but i don't think what i was describing is poor quality care.
the workers choose the hours and locations they can do.
if they decline any particular jobs, they just say they can't do it.
there is always more work than people to do it.

If people arent receiving care because of this its dreadful care.

all i am saying is it's best to be prepared.
i never came across one care-worker who had a pet dog themselves, maybe one bulgarian, back home in plenty of land, but not really as a pet, more as a guard dog outside.
so the pool of already few available staff will be even smaller, to find someone who can work in those conditions.
they would not work with the animal in the same room of course.

maybe someone could start a specialist agency: dogs? no probs !
but recruitment would be difficult round here.

I am in a team currently of those who provide care, in a different way to home care, but in a team of 20, 15 of us have dogs.

When looking for carers for MIL there were several on the agency's books who would not work in homes which had a dog

Why don’t you say tactfully is your dog okay he’s seems to have a bit of a funny odour coming from him/her my friends dog had toothache which caused him to have a similar odour
Iit might waken your family up
give it a go, see what their reaction will , be test hee waters so to speak

multicolourswapshop

Why don’t you say tactfully is your dog okay he’s seems to have a bit of a funny odour coming from him/her my friends dog had toothache which caused him to have a similar odour
Iit might waken your family up
give it a go, see what their reaction will , be test hee waters so to speak

In other words, “your dog smells”.